Phifer v. City of Bayonne

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The prosecutor, a taxpayer of the city of Bayonne, seeks to set aside a contract awarded by the board of commissioners of said city to the Montrose Contracting Company, Incorporated, for the lowering of the existing thirty-inch cast iron submarine pipe under the waters of the Hackensack river. There were four bidders, of which the Montrose Contracting Company was the lowest on the alternate bid as advertised, its bid being $284,676. The next lower bidder was the Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation, its bid being $303,485. None of the…